Old age facts for kids
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Old age is when a person is old and near the time when he or she dies. These people are usually retired from work and spend their time in other ways like helping take care of small children who are kin to them in some way. Often people of old age have wrinkly skin. They will move slower, and become constantly cold.
Old people have more health problems than young adults, and many of them take medicine. The reason for this is that their bodies are slowly deteriorating, so they have more problems, especially with moving. Osteoporosis weakens the bones, and is one of the problems that become more common with age. Gerontology is the part of medicine that deals with these things.
Old people are also called "senior citizens" or "elders". Elders are considered to be wise because they have had much experience in their long lives. Many cultures view elders with respect and kindness, and depend upon them to pass down knowledge to the younger people.
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Images for kids
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An elderly woman at a Ringing Cedars' settlement in Russia
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Old Woman Dozing by Nicolaes Maes (1656). Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels
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An image of an elderly man being guided by a young child accompanies William Blake's poem London, from his Songs of Innocence and Experience
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The hand of an elderly person
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Women at the On Lok Senior Health Services day care program in San Francisco, late 1970s
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An elderly Khmer woman
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An elderly Somali woman
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An elderly woman walks along a road
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A walker in the apartment of a senior woman
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Jan van Eyck, Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele, c. 1434–36
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Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of the Artist's Mother at the Age of 63, 1514
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Titian, Self-Portrait, c. 1567
See also
In Spanish: Tercera edad para niños
